wallop

a nasty wallop

A severe and powerful blow, which may be either dealt or received. I got a really nasty wallop from a two-by-four on the construction site last week.His left hook can deal a nasty wallop if he catches you with it.

pack a punch

pack a punch

Also, pack a wallop.

1. Be capable of a forceful blow; also, deliver a forceful blow. For example, Knowing Bob could pack a wicked punch, they were careful not to anger him, or She swung her handbag, really packing a wallop. [Colloquial; c. 1920]

2. Have a powerful effect, as in That vodka martini packed a wallop. Thomas Wolfe had this figurative usage in a letter (c. 1938): "I think my play, The House, will pack a punch."

Restoring a medium-class launch capability from Wallops is critical to furthering NASAs and the nations goals in space, maintaining the space station as a springboard to the agencys next giant leap in exploration -- including future missions to an asteroid and Mars.

Earth Networks(SM), the owner of WeatherBug[R] and operator of the largest weather, lightning detection and climate observation networks, announces it will be delivering lightning data from its total lightning detection network to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility (WFF).

The test flight was the first launch from the pad at Wallops and was the first flight of Antares, which delivered the equivalent mass of a spacecraft, a so-called mass simulated payload, into Earth's orbit.

NASA estimates that the total value ofthe equipment "destroyed' in the affair is less than $50,000, not atypical for operations at Wallops Island, where old military rockets and other such equipment are often used.

WASHINGTON, July 28, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Wallops Flight Facility Aircraft Office in Virginia has been recognized as the best small aviation program in the Federal government by the General Services Administration and the Interagency Committee for Aviation Policy.

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